Mike Champion scripsit:
> [...] non-namespaced well-formed XML [...]
I hasten to mention that XOM works fine with non-namespaced XML;
it just doesn't have a Level 1 interface that *only* works for
non-namespaced XML.
> I also appreciated the point that John Cowan made about XOM's
> conceptual integrity. As we all know, W3C DOM got the way it is
> partly because it is the proverbial camel designed by a committee.
Worse, because it also had to be at least somewhat compatible with the
old browser DOMs, which were by no means compatible with each other.
As you know.
> [L]et a hundred
> refactorizations of DOM/JDOM/dom4j/proprietary APIs bloom,
> create an ecology of competing codes, and let Father Darwin sort
> them out.
Hear, hear!
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